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1 38.1
Extracts from Maoauley's New Volume
17E3
We make the following extracts from the
fifth volume of Macauley's History of Eng
land, just issued by publishers in Philadel
phia, New York and Boston.
Some years before, while the war was still
raging, there had been loud complaints in
the city that even privateers of St. Malo's
and Dunkirk caused less molestation to trade
than another class of marauders. The Eng
lish navy was fully employed in the Ohan
nel,in the Atlanticand in the Mediterranean.
The Indian Ocean, meanwhile, swarmed
with pirates, of whose rapacity and cruelty
frightful stories were told. Many of these
men, it was said, came from our North
American colonies, and cr.rried back to those
colonies the spoils gained by crime. Ad
venturers who durst not show themselves in
the Thames found a ready market fur their
ill-gotten spices and stuffs at New York.—
Even the Puritans of New England, who in
sactimonious austerity surpassed even their
brethren of Scotland, were accused of con
ni ing at the wickedness which enabled them
to enjoy abundantly and cheaply the pre
duce of Indian looms and Chinese tea-plant
ations.
Mill
In 1605 Richard Cootc, Earl of Bellamont,
an Irish peer who sat in the English House
of Commons, was appointed Governor of
New York and Massachusetts. He was a
man of eminently fair character, upright,
courageous and independent. Though a de
cided Whig, be had distinguished himself by
bringing before the Parliament at West
minster some tyrannical acts done by whips
at 'Dublin, and particularly the execution,
if it is not rather to be called the murder.
of Gefney. Before Bellamont sailed for
America, William spoke strongly to him
about the freebooting which was the die
grace of the colonies. "I send you, my
lord, to Now York," he said. "because an
honest and upright man is wanted to put
these abuses down, and because I believe
you to be such a man." Bellamont exerted
himself to justify the high opinion which
the king had firmed of him. It was soon
known at New York that the Governor who
had just arrived from England was bent on
the suppression of piracy, and some colo
nists in whom he placed great confidence
suggested to him what they may perhaps
have thought the best mode of attaining
that object. There was then in the settle
merit a veteran mariner named William
Kidd. Ile had reseed most of his life on
t he wave, had distinguished himself by his
seamanship, had had opportunities of show
ing his vel ,r in action with the French, and
had retired on a competence. Na man knew
the Eastern Seas better, He WAS perfectly
acquainted with all the haunts of the pirate!,
who prowled between the Cape of Good
Ilene and the Straits of Malacca; and he
would undertake, if he were intrusted with
a single ship of thirty or forty guns, to clear
the whole Indian Ocean of the whole race.
The brigatines of the rover were numerous
no doubt, but none of them were large; one
man of war, which in the royal navy would
hardly rank as a fourth rate, would easily
deal witn them all in succession, and the
lawful spoils of the enemies of mankind
would much more than defray the charges
of the expedition. Bellamont was chorused
with this plan, and recommended it to the
king. The king referred it to the Admiral
ty. The Admiralty raised difficulties, such
as are perpetually raised by public boards
when any deviation, whether for the better
or for the worse from the established course
of proceeding is proposed. It then occurred
to Bellamont that his favorite scheme might
be carried into effect without any cost tO the
state. A few public spirited men might
easily fit out a privateer which would soon
make the Arabian Gulf and the Bay of Ben
gal secure highways for trade. Ile wrote
to his friends in England imploring,, re
monstrating, complaining of their lamenta
ble want of public spirit. Six thousand
p runds would be enough. That sum would
be repaid, and repaid with large interest,
from the sale of prices, and an inestimable
benefit would be conferred on the kingdom
and on the world, His urgency sueeee led.
Shrewsbury and Romney contributed. Ox
ford, though as first Lord of the Admiralty,
he had been unwilling to send Kidd to the
Indian Ocean with a king's ship, consented.
to subscribe a thousand pounds. Samers
subscribed another thousand. A ship called
the Adventure Galley W. 1.9 equipped in the
port of London, and Kidd took the command
Ile carried with him, be4ides the ordinary
'ettcrs of marque, a commission under the
Great Seal empowering him to seize pirates
and to take them to some place where they
might be dealt with necording - to law.—
Whatever right the king might hare to the
goods found in the possession of these male
factors, he granted, by letters patent, to the
persons who had been at the expense of fit
ting out the expedition, reserving to himself
oily one-tenth part of the gains of the ad
venture, which was to be paid into the trea
sury. With the claim of merchants to have
back the property of which they bad been
robbed, his majesty, of course, did not in
,erfere. Ile granted away, and could grant
away no rights but his own.
The press fur sailors to man the royal
navy was at that time so hot that Kidd could
not obtain his full complement of hands in
the Thames. Ile crossed the Atlantic, vie
ReCeil'"ei
6. r. ILDERLIAN
ations.
CAPTAIN FIER, TIM PIRATE
"NO RNTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR; ANI: PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1861.
ited New York, and there found volunteers'
in abundance. At length, in February, 1697,
he sailed from the Hodson with a crow of
more than a hundred and fifty men, and in
July reached the coast of Madagascar.
It is possible that Kidd 'way at first have
meant to act in aceurdauce with his instruc
tions. But on the subject of piracy he held
the notions which were then common in the
North American colonies, and most of his
crow were of the same mind. Ho found
himself in a sea which was constantly tra
versed by rich and defenceless merchant
ships, and he had to determine whether he
would plunder those ships or protect them.
The gain which might be made by plunder
ing them was immense, and might be
snatched without the danger of a battle or
the delays of a trial. The rewards of pro
tecting toe lawful trade were likely to bo
comparatively small. Such as they were,
they-would he got only by the first fighting
with desperate roams who would rather bo
killed than taken, and by then instituting a
proceeding and obtaining a judgement in a
Court of Admiralty. The risk of being
called to a severe reckoning might not un
naturally seem small to one who had seen
many old Buccaneers living in credit and
e.nnfort at New York ami Boston. Kidd
soon threw off the eltaxacter of a privateer
and became pirate. 110 established friendly
communications and exchanged arms and
ammunition with the most notorious of these
rovers whom his commission authorised him
to destroy, and made war on those peaceful
traders whom he was sent to defend. He
began by robbing Mussulmans, and speedi
ly-
proceeding from Mussulmans to Armen
ians and from Armenians to Purtugese.—
The Adventure Galley took such quantities
of cotton and silk, sugar and coffee, cinna
mon and pepper, that the very foremast men
received from a hundred to two hundred
pounds each, and that the eaptaiu's share
of the spoil would have enabled him to live
at home as an opulent getleman. With the
rapacity, Kidd had the cruelty of his odious
calling. He burned houses, he missacred
peasantry. His prisoners were tied up an .
beaten with naked cutlasses in order to ex
tort information about theirconcealed hoards.
One of his crew whom he he had called a
dug, was provoked into exclaiming, in an
agony of remorse: "Yes, I mu a dog but it
is you that have made me so." Kidd, in a
fury, struck the man dead. •
News then travelled very slowly from the
Eastern Seas to England. But in August,
1625, it was known in England that the
Aiiventure Galley, from which so much had
been hoped, was the terror of the merchants
of Surat and of the villagers of the coast of
Malabar. It was thought probable that
Kidd would carry his b iaty to some colony.
Orders were therefore, seat from Whitehall
the governors of the transmarine possessions
of the crown, directing them to be on the
watch for him. He, meanwhile, having
burned his ship. and dismissed most of Ids
men—who easily found berths in the sloops
of other pirates— , returned to Now York,
with the means as he flattered himßelf, of
making his peace and of living in splendor.
He had fabricated a long romance, to which
Bellamont, naturally unwilling to believe
that he had been doped, and had been
the means of duping others, was at first dis
posed to listen with favor. Bot the trot's
soon C:11130 our. The governor did his duty
firroly,„and Kidd was placed in close con
finement till orde •s arrived from Vie Admi
ralty that he should be sent to England.
rrar.re Tar. G11t.5.1' IN lINGIAND
In the same week in which Whitehall
perished, the Londoners were supplied with
a new topic of conversation Ly a royal visit,
which, of all royal vis•ti, was the least pom
pous and ceremonious, and yet the most in
teresting, and important. Oa the 10th of
January a vessel from llblland anchored
off Greenwich, and was welcomed with great
respect. Peter the First. Czar of Moseovy,
was on board. lie took twat with a few at
tendants, and was rowed tip the Th tines t o
Nwfolk street, where a house overlooking
he ricer had been prepared for his recep
tion.
His jmirney is an epoch in the history not
only of his own country, but of -ours and of
the world. To the polished nations of West
ern Europe, the empire which he governed
had till then been what Bukhara. or Siam is
to us. That empire, indeed, though less
extensive than at present, was the must ex
tensive that had ever obeyed a single chief.
The dominions of Alexander and of Trajan
were small when compared with the im
mense area of the Scythian desert. But, in
the estimation of statesmen, that boundless
expanse of larch forest and morass, where
the snow lay deep during eight months of
every year, and where a wretched pert7antry
could with difficulty defend their hovels
against troops of famished wolves, was of
less account than the two or three square
miles into which were crowded the count
ing -houses, the warehouses, and the innu
merable masts of Amsterdam. On the Bal
tic, Russia had not then asingle 'port. Ller
maritime trade with the other nations if
Christendom was entirely carried on at
Archangel, a place which had, been created
,ind was supported by adventurers from our
island. In the days of the Tudors a ship
from England, seeking a northeast passage
to the land of silk and spice, Rad discovered
the White Sea. The barbarians who dwelt
on the shores of that dreary gulf had never
before seen such a portent as a vessel of a
hundred arid sixty tons burden. ' They Bed
in terror; and, when they were pursued and
overtaken, prostrated themselves before the
chief of the strangers and kissed his feet.—
He succeeded in opening a friendly commu
nication with them, and from that time there
has been a regular commercial intercourse
ibetween our country and the subjects of the
Czar. A Russia company was incorporated
in London. An English factory was built
at Archangel. The factory was indeed,
even in the latter part of the seventeeth
century, a rude and mean building. The
walls consisted of trees laid one upon the
other, and the roof was of birch bark. This
[ shelter, however, was sufficient in the lung
summer day of the Arctic regions. Regu
larly at that season several English ships
cast anchor in the bay. A fair was held on
the beach. Traders came from a distance
of many hundreds of miles to the only mart
where they could exchange hemp and tar,
hides and tallow, wax • and honey, the fur
of the sable and the wolverine, and the roe
of the sturgeon of the Volga for Manchester
stuffs, Sheffield knives, Birmingham buttons,
sugar from Jamaica and pepper from Mala
bar. The commerce in these articles was
open. But there was a secret traflie which
was not less active or less lucrative, though
the Russian divines pronounced it damnable.
In general, the mandates of princes and the
lessons of priests were received by the Mus
covite with profound reverence. But the
authority of his princes and the lessons of
priests united could not keep him from to
bacco. Pipes be could not obtain; but a
caw's horn perforated served his turn.—
From every Archangel fair rolls of the best
Virginia speedily found their way to Nov
gorod and Tobolsk.
The commercial intercourse between Eng
land and Russia made same diplomatic in
tercourse necessary. The diplomatic inter
course, however, was only occasional. The
Czar had no rermatten t minister here. We
had no pertstanent minister at Moscow, and
even at Archangel we bud no consul.—
Taree or four times in a century extraordi
nary embassies were sent from Whitehall
to the Kremlin, and from the Kremlin to
Whitehall.
The English embassies had histOrians
whose narratives may still be read with in
terest. Those historians described vividly,
and sometimes bitterly, the savage ignor
ance and the sqnalid poverty of the barbar
ous country in which they had sojourned.
In that country, they said, there was neither
literature not science, neither school nor
college. It was not till more than a hun
dred years after the invention of printing
that a single printing,press 'had been intro
'...uced into the Russian empire, and that
printing press had speedily perished in a
fire which was supposed to have becn kin
dled by the priests. Even in the seven
teenth century the library of a prelate of
the first dignity consisted of a few manu
scripts. Those manuscripts, ton, were in
long rolls; for the art of book binding was
unknown. The best educated men cceild
barely read and write. It was Much iI the
secretary to whom was intrusted the dire!-
, lion of negotiations with foreign powers bad
a sufficient:smattering of Dag Lain to make
himself understood. The arithincti., was
the arithmetic of Dark Ages. The denary
notation was unknown. Even in the impe
rial treasury the computations were made
by the help of balls strung on wires. Roand
the person of the sovereign there was a
blaze of gold and jew,!.: hot even in his
most splendid palaces were to be found the
filth and misery of an Irish cabin. So late
as the year 16.7.3 the gentlemen of the retinue
of the 1 trl of Carlisle were, in the city of
Moscow. thrust into a single bed-room, and
were told that, if they did not remain to
gether, they would be in d.lnger of being
devoured by rats.
Such WAS the repart which the E tglish
legations wade of what they had seen and
suffered in Russia, and their evidence was
continue i by the appearance which the
Itusmian legation mule in England. The
strangers spoke no civilized language.—
Their garb, their gestures, their salutations,
had a wild and barbarous character. The
ambassador, and the grandees who accom
panied him. were so gorgeous that all Len
den crowded to stare at them, and so filthy
that nobody dared to touch them. They
came to the court balls dropping pearls and
vermin. It was tail that one envoy cudg
elled the lord; of his train whenever they
soiled or lost any part of their finery, and
that another had with difficulty been pre
vented from putting his ern to death for the
crime of shaving and dressing after the
French fashion.
Oar ancestors, therefore, was not a little
vurprised to learn th-tt a y flung barbarian,
who had, at seventeen years of age. became
autocrat of the immense region stretching
from the confines of Sweden to those of
China, and whose eduction had been in
ferior to that of en Eugli;h farmer or shop
man, had planried gigantic improvements,
had learned enough of some language of
Western T:uropo to enable hiM to communi
cate with civilized men, bad begun to sur
round himself with able adventurers from
various parts of the world, hail sent many
of his young subjects to study languages,
arts and sciences in foreign cities, and, final
ly had determined to travel even as a pri
vate man, and to discover, by personal ob
servation, the secret of the immense power
enjoyed by some communities whose whole
territory was far less than the hundredth
part of his dominions.
It might have been expected that France
would have been the first object of this cu.
riosity. For the grace and dignity of the
French king, the splendor of the French
court, the discipline of the French armies,
and the genius and learning of the French
writers, were then renowned all over the
world. But the Cral'S mind hid early
taken a strange ply which it retained to the
last. Ills empire was of all empires ilia
least capable of being made a gre tt naval
power. The Swedish provinces lay between
his states and the Baltic. The Bosphorus
and Dardanelles lay between his states and
the Mediterranean. He had access to the
ocean only in a latitude in which naviga
tion is, during a great part of every year,
perilous and difficult. On theocoan he had
only a single port.
Archangel, and the whole shipping of
Archangel was foreign. There did not
exist a Russian vessel larger than a fishing
boat. Yet, from some cause which cannot
now be traced, he had a taste fur maritime
pursuits which amounted to a passion, in
deed almost to a monomania. His imagina
tion was full of sails, yard arms and rud
ders. That large mind, equal to the high
est duties of the general and the statesman,
contracted itself to the most minute details
of naval architecture and naval discipline.
The chief ambition of the great conqueror
and legislator was to be a good boatswain
and a good ship's carpenter. Holland and
England, therefore. had fir him an nttrac
tion which was wanting to the ,galleries and
terraces of Versailles. lie repaired to Am
sterdam, took a lodging in the dock-yard,
assumed the garb of a pilot, put down his
name on the list,of workmen, wielded with
his own hand the caulking-iron and mallet,
fixed the pumps and twisted the ropes.—
Ambassadors who came to pay their respects
to him were forced, much against their will
t t clamber up the rigging of a man-of-war,
and found him enthroned on the cross-trees.
Such was the prince whom the populace
of London now crowded to behold. llis
stately form, his intellectual forehead, his
piercing black eyes, his Tartar nose and
mouth, his gracious smile, his frown black
with all the stormy rage and hate of a bar
barian tyrant, and, above all, a strange ner
vous convulsion which sometimes transform
ed his countenance, during a few moments,
into an object on which it was impossible to
look without terror, the immense quantities
of meat which he devoured, the pints of
brandy which he swallowed, and which it
was said, ho had carefully distilled with his
own hands, the fool who jabbered at his
feet, the monkey which grnned at the back
of his chair, were during some weeks, pop
ular topics of conversation. lie meanwhile
shunned the publiegaze with a haughty shy
ness which inflamed curiosity. lie went ta
a play; but, as soon as ho perceived that
pit, boxes and galleries were staring„ not at
the stage, but at :dm, he retired to a back,
bench, where he was screened from observa
tion by his attendants. He was desirous to
see a sitting of the lionse of Lards; but as he
was determiaed not to be seen, Ito was forced
to climb np to the leads, and to peep through j
a small window. Ile heard with great in- I
terest the royal assent given to a bill for
raising fifteen hundred thousand pounds Lc ;
tnd tax, and learned with amazement that
this sun, though larger by one half than
the whole revenue which he could wring
from the population of the immense empire'
of which he was r,bsolute master, was but
a small part of what the Commons of Eng
land voluntarily granted every year to their
constitutional king.
Albemarle had arrived at Kensington from
the Hague, exhausted by rapid travelite%
Ms master kindly bade him go to rest fur
some hours, and then summoned hint to
make his report. That report was iu all
respects satisfactory. The States General
were in the best temper; the troop , , provi
sion., and the magazines, Were in the best
order. Everything was in re:dines ifa an
early campaign. William received the intel
ligence with the calmness of a man whose
work was done, lie was under no illusion
as to his danger. "I :tan fast drawing," he
said, "to my end." Ills end was 'worthy
of his life, His invilleet was not for a mo
ment elotolel. llts fortitude was the mare
admirable because lie was not waling to die.
lie had very lately said to one of th-e.c
whom he most loved, - Volt know that I
never leered death; there have lo , en times
when I should have wished it; hut, mi.::
that this great new prospect is opening b - -
fore tar, I do Si is,li to stay a little longer.' .
trot no weaknos.. he iptertilousne-is, di,-
graced the noi,le el 'se of t b n ill ~ ..m.recr.
To the rillysici In; the king rota: a .1 his
thanks graciously au I gently. "1 know
that you have done all that blbill and learn
ing could do for me; Mt; the case is bey in I
your art, and I sulunit." From the words
which escaped hint be seemed to h e fro
trendy eng,azel in mental prayer. Bar:.e:
and 'renison remained matty hours in the
lla soon became weary of his residence, 'sick room, lie professed to them his firm
Ile found that he was too far from the nl.l-1 belief in the truth of the Christian religion,
jects of his curiosity, and too near to the ' and received the sacrament from their hands
crowds to which he was himself an object' with great serioustiess. The antechamber.;
of curiosity. Ile accordingly removed to I were crowde I all night with lords and privy
'Rya - ord, and was thei c lodged in the house, conneillors. Ile ordered seyer4l of them t , ..
of .John Evelyn, a house which had lung be called in, and exerted hintseli to take
been a favorite resort of men of letters, men leave of theta with a fem. Lind and elite:col
of taste, and men of science. Here Peter words. Among the I:.: A N.,Ta who were al
g.tve himself up to his favorite pursuits.— i mitred to his bedside were Devonshire and
lie navigated a yacht every day up and I Ormond. .But there were in the crowd I
down the river. Ills apartment was crowd- those who felt as no Englitinnan could foci
ed with models of three-deckers and two- 1 —friends of his youth who hal been true to :
deckers, frigates, sloops, and fire ships.— I him, and to whom lie had been true, through
The only Englishman of rank in whose so- all the vicissitudes of fortune; who had :
ciety he scented to take much pleasure was! served him with unalterable fidelity when t
the eccentric Caertnarthen, whose passion ; his Secretaries of State, his Treasury, and '
fur the sea bore some resemblance to his his Admiralty had betrayed him; who had ,
own, and who was very competent to give , never, on any field of battle, or in an n tru , ss ;
nn opinion about every part of a ship from 1 phere tainted. with loathsome and deadly ,
the stem to the stern. Caerrnarthen, in-, disease, shrunk from plamr4 their own
deed, became so great a favorite that he ; lives in jeupady to save his, cad whose truth I
prevailed on the Czar to consent to the ad- i he had, at the co-t of ills owe p 'pal:tray, :I - . I , e4 ,- , and kve for our common moth er ,
mission of a limited quantity of tobacco , rewarded with lils ba..z.eous munitlcsnce. wit se iast.Led 1. sox and imp 'tined sari :.
into Russia. There was reason to appre- ; Ile strained his : . echic voice to thank At:- ha I called her faithful eitlldr‘m to the e..-
bend that the Russian clergy would ery out 1 vcrrocrqle for the atTectionatc and loyal s thg,uined Loll,
against any relaxation of the ancient rule, ser‘ire.s of thirty }cars. TJ Allom trio he A . : tl.:::y minutes past fo.ir o'doe',: ti..
and would strenuously maintain that the; gave the keys of 11:s closet oil private , draw- ,it m. 1...:: w.t, . 1....1t2,1 b..; the discharge of tt
practice of smoking was condemned by that , ers. -1 'u know," he said: "what to (1.. h:loll f.om tim , llom ice: Lottery on Jame.
1
text which declares that man is defied, not with them." ry this time he :Jul 1 bearer- Isiaml„ under the co :nand of Capt. Gee r•-
by those things which enter in at the mouth ly respire. "Can thl:." 1e , ..! F.lll t, Cid lo;sy- S. James, alto f." wed the riddled Politic:.
but by those which proceed out of it. This sician‘., ••last long]" it .! AAt t , I 1 C•Ut t.. 0 to La:mer on the ltlo .1: Lau:
apprehension was expressed by a del-atm-lend Was approazhing. lie swallowed a eor- Ni:.:::,,J
William judiciou•dy L11111)70:1 the whim ,
of his illos:rious gue,t, and stole to Norfolk
street 91 quietly that nob hly in the neigh
borhood recognized his majesty in the thin
gentleman who got out of the tnode.t Itok
ing cowl' at the Czar's lo.loingo. The Czar
returned the visit with the same pre-mn
tions, and was a lmitkd into Kensington
house by a back door. It was afterwards
known that he took no unties of the fine pic
tures alai which the pAlace was adorned.
not over the chimney of the royal sitting
room wal a plate which, by an ingettionq
machinery, indicated the tlirootion of lb,
wind, nn t with this plat , 11 , was in rap.
three.
31,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; 32,00 IP NOT IN ADVANCI
tion of merchants who were admitted to an
audience of the Czar; but they were teas
snred by the air with which ho told them
that he knew how to keep priests in order.
De was indeed so free from any bigoted
attachment to the religion in which he had
been brought up, that both Papists and
Protestants hoped at different time, to make
him a proqelyte. Burnet, v0mmi. , 1,,,,e Iby
his brethren, and impelled, no doubt, by
his own restless curiosity and love of med
dling, repaired to Deptford, and was honor
ed with several audience.. The Czar cauld
not be persuaded to exhibit himself at St.
Paul's; but he was induced to visit Lam
beth Palace. There ho sow the ceremony
of ordination perforated, and expressed
warm approbation of the Anglican ritual.—
Nothing in England astonished him su much
as the archiepiscopal library. It wa-, the
first good collection of books that he had
seen; and be declared that he bad rimer
imagined that there were so many printed
volumes in the world.
The impression which Lo made on Bat
net was not favorable. The good bi-hoi,
could not understand that a mind which
scented to be chiefly occupied with que,tion
about the bet place for a capstan and the
best way of rigging a jury ins t, !night he
capable, not merely of ruling an empire,
but of creating a nation. Ile complained
that he had gone to see a great prince and
had found only nn industrious shipwright.
Nor does Evelyn seem to hire formed a
muchmore favorable opinion of Lis august
tenant. It was, indeed, not in the charac
ter of tenant that the Czar was lilLely to
gain the good word of civilized men. With
all the high qualities which were peculiar to
himself, he had all the filthy habits which
were then common among his countrymen.
To the end of his life, while disciplining
armies, founding se cools, fronting codes, or
ganizing tribunals, building eiti es in deserts,
joining distant seat by attilicial livers, be
lived in his palace like a hug in a sty; and
when he was entertained by other sorea
eign., never failed to leave on their tapes
tried walls and velvet state beds, unequivo
cal proofs ti.at a savage had 110e11 thPre.--
Evelyn's house was in such a state that tile
Treasury quieted his complaints with a 1201.-
Siderabk sum of money.
Toward the close of March the Czar
s
ited Portsmouth, sow a sham vet fight at
Spithead, watched every anus ement if the
contending fleets with intense interest, and
expressee in warns terms his gratitude to
the hospitable government which had pro
vided so delightful a spectacle fur his amass
ment and instruction. After passing more
than than three months in England, he de
parted in high g,riod humor.
nzan OF ITILLIAU Tim TUIRD
The king, meanwhile Wag sinking 1,t32.
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,600.
dial and asked ft.r Dentinck. Tkos,t‘
his last articulate words. Dentine:: in
stantly came to the bedside, Lent down and
placed his ear close to the ki,,gs mouth.—
The lips of . the dying man moved, but noth
ing could be beard. The king took tl.e
hand of his earliest friend and pressed it
tenderly to his heart. In that moment,
mbt, all that had cast t 1 1.-in;
e'ocol over their lung and pine f, i. n 1 ,111,,
was forgotten. It was now between se•. - ca
and eight in the morning. De closed 1):s
eye-) and gasped fur breath. The bisi,nl s
knelt down and read the eommendato,,-
prayer. When it ended William wa )
mom
When remains were lain ;it, it tr
fund that he wore next to ! 1 k :I u, t
piece of black si k rilSin. The 101,1, i
waning ordered it to be taken eT. Itur ;.
taine3 a gold ring and n!oek uf the ,
' Marv.
Bombardment of Fcrt Sumter
=I
Ti c C:t talt•-tott It.tpeT, S.tttit At;
two , ttittt, of O; 11"-t
P Tn, actin it:, tIL
tEtror tri) (Ito tQlt , git..ll.ltic ttct•••titit-, !tut t!
tit,tt-t2 it,tt•roit.
.‘t rJolot o.' un the o. .
U C:iorid Be.viregar I
iniind oil 31.1j.Dr .locier-on for (he
sorron.lo,r of P.a.( Former, through Ili
Junes •Ir , , (2,1.
4 :410. LT.C. Major lud.2l•socc iel :i,• I c
such courso x , ul.l La 1:1(7011,1-
W:I , 1 lllircl 1,)
Inert to Th.! arse. 4•
11111Iiitt , 1 by the Ganeral-in-Clief
dent
This 11,1 t, and th ,, nt . Co -,
ur Fort Sumter to ao,mde ht the. d
111.111 , 1 mmle general
from tontine t. tongmh and sokm the ‘‘il I
wa-, in I.o,cobioil die st.irtlin
gonee. Ruinqr, ns =Lo I; 11 it
tho f.iets to .uit her pti:p cnkr,Til heir
and p.n.: them 3 0.)11114tltil , P1t
they had iit,t worn when fre.h
the pule and artless hands of truth.
half an hour after the return of the or
derlies it was confidentially believed that
the hattinieit would open tire ateiglst
and in expectation of seeing the beginn:n,:,
of the c•m!liet hundreds congrogetel up., .
the Battery and the wharves looking, out
the bay. There they stood, straining their
eyes over the dark expanse of water, wait
ing to see the flash and hear the Iment
the first gun. The eloek the hour
eleven, and still they gaged and listened,
but the eyelids grew weary anal at the noon
of night the larger portion ut the dieal,
pointed spectators were plodding tl.elr
homeward.
At abJut nine o'clock Ileneral llcauregar 1
received a reply front Pic 3ident l)dvl to ur
despatch in relation to the surrender of Sum
ter, by which he was instructed to infooo
Major Anderson that if he would et•nonnt,
the fort he held when his prose it supply
pre; isions was exhausted there would he
appeal to arias. This propodtion was Ito:::
to M..ijor Anlersort by-the Aids who ita
dt'livete.l the first mess:lg - % and he re1 ., 1!. -
to 3eCt!pt ac.2ept t •Z
oral-in-Chief forthwith 4 t:ie ordsr 111
1.,,1ttCr, , "2,5 tic opoioti at h.t:f-p
o• •ic, on tid iy niorliin,t. :` , 13 . j0r A -
roply was 4
iftle4ti (1,2:107.:1 1:,1,11-og.tr.1
til:tied to tttyly the In-:, argtutteld.
Tho , -1::cr had ie,dted t.,
do•por,lte dcftnie.., an 1 i!:.• 1.! t: i.,1
r;!:) 4 :1; :nu , t !.0 c—a3td.
ur,,l
ttio •it, in nt , n.;•, 37:L1 it,
-
I.al ;I jet 11.L.0 i
11. 1
vox ,
a": ,!
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1)1( r to 1.:14:‘.5 in lir
A
111. t; nilace tLe e.irs clxl, -
11.-plzMicail 1,,:t •!,:.!
Lc f,AL Ly gc:i.ent:ioil , act 1,,
\V,. 1:1;i-it tra. , lsmlt. lwritage uC r.ui
/1:12, all Z 11,11k1)Igi e . ; 1.,1te t .atr tf"iidrea.
At t?ic gl-15. t!if,
rn:Lr (,r r•ulnoa 117,ilte! n m tJ,c Ir. 't"
e%perte.l u0t1.).1 i-n; noctr, rc I `0:„.
re i• 1 foe: v.n:••.7- I
r (•vcit.l oecnnalt4, an I ;
stream p , ; to l througli all thl stl er.t.•
t. , 1 the wharves and P.:tterv.
our be,in!iful promena le we I , qn : it lin._ i
pith rank; of eager spec:ate. s. and all t!, ,,
wharves emnmanding a view of ti.e Litt; •
were crowded quickly with human f.rn( •
Oa no gala occasion have we ever err.) -
ly so large a number of ladies on r'or
tery asgraccd the breezy walk on t1.1.e;0:,:•
ful morning. There they stood aitit
sating hetrts and pallid facc-; i.chin!: the
white sm ,kc as it iL;:q. in wry ..... . . upr.n the
soft twiliAbt .iir, and i,reathinz ow, IL•ri ant
prayeta for ti.e.r ;_a:lant at the
guns. .L raga 1 in tln , n
bt:;•VCCn I.n-c for
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